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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

Deregulation has produced monopolistic practices that have resulted in higher prices for consumers and slowed the deployment of competitive networks. Consumers in South Korea and Japan can get broadband speeds reaching 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) for less than the monthly price a U.S. Bad policy decisions should be reversed.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Thus was born Craigslist, which soon expanded into a web-based platform where users could connect directly with each other at will to sell, trade, and donate goods, services, and gigs. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. The early promise of this emerging platform economy seemed fantastical.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

NTEN

3 Steps to think about in Millennial giving There are 3 practical steps that will be helpful in thinking about millenial giving: you don''t need to build a new platform to get them to talk about your work, you just have to learn how to optimize what you''re already using. It''s a simple question but hard to crack. 1) Create a space.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, I thought I’d back up the theory with a brief picture of what this kind of travel looks like in practice. Kipp’s idea was that we could take this paper-based rape reporting system and build it on top of our Martus secure human rights software platform. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it. Roger Martin).

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